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Word Meanings - RAIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.

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  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • HABITURE
    Habitude.
  • JUMBLEMENT
    Confused mixture.
  • UNIFORMISM
    The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
  • HABITED
    1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • UNIFORMLY
    In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
  • RAIMENT
    1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DISARRAY
    1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.
  • STRIP-LEAF
    Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • LIVERY
    gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
  • STRIPLING
    A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
  • HABILIMENT
    Dress, in general. Shak. (more info) clothe, orig., to make fit, make ready, fr. habile apt, skillful, L. 1. A garment; an article of clothing. Camden. 2. pl.
  • ARRAY
    arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. reithi rigging, harness; akin to E. 1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement;
  • COSTUME
    custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate
  • STRIPPER
    One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • UNATTIRE
    To divest of attire; to undress.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
    One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.

 

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